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"Sweet" 16http://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001910.html
The first post on this here blog popped up sixteen years ago, today. The original format of this blog was as a two-column "point-counterpoint" between moi, then "the left-leaning dog,"...tdog2017-09-18T07:32:51-05:00Here we are... againhttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001909.html
And so, it's September 11th again. For some people, life doesn't get any better. . For the rest of us, it seems, maybe we should use this moment to "take...tdog2017-09-11T03:44:09-05:00Busted mythshttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001907.html
Run, don't walk, to this piece in the Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates called "The First White President." For those wondering why so many were obsessed with "the White working class,"...tdog2017-09-07T10:26:20-05:00Musingshttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001906.html
Next month will mark the sixteenth anniversary of this blog, not to mention the sixteenth anniversary of America's Own Reichstag Fire[TM], September 11th (and now, as then, I still work...tdog2017-08-31T21:14:49-05:00It never f***ing endshttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001905.html
In Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists (including the Ku Klux Klan) were protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, a vehicle plowed into a crowd of counter-protesters,...tdog2017-08-12T16:34:40-05:00Happy Fourthhttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001904.html
Long-time GTMO prisoner and "child soldier" (apprehended and taken to GTMO when he was fifteen years old) Omar Khadr will receive ten million dollars in compensation for mistreatment he received...tdog2017-07-04T16:33:59-05:00Happy Birthday... Canadahttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001903.html
It's Dominion Day in the Great White North (funny that expression in light of developments in the soon-to-be-former-superpower to its South)... and there were well-attended celebrations of Canada Day on...tdog2017-07-01T23:43:34-05:00While you weren't lookinghttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001902.html
It seems that the Trump Administration has announced the first military commission charges in a really long time, in this case, charges against Indonesian national Riduan “Hambali” Isomuddin for orchestrating...tdog2017-06-24T12:55:24-05:00Isn't that Special [Relationship?]http://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001901.html
As is often the case, I must temper my remarks by noting my personal exhaustion: I had a "short finish" (31 miles out of the official length of 40) in...tdog2017-06-04T17:45:08-05:00WTF? WTF?http://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001900.html
I'm coming into the party a bit late, so I'll jump in with this piece noting that top Congressional Democrats are calling for a report on Jeff Sessions role in...tdog2017-05-12T18:54:22-05:00Trump/Ryan Derangement Derangement Syndromehttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001899.html
Everything I want to say on the subject has been said better by Professor Lemieux concerning what's wrong with the chattering classes, to wit, God forbid political coverage tell us...tdog2017-05-05T08:19:37-05:00The Rosetta Stonehttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001898.html
Could this Politico piece linking the Hasidic Jewish group Chabad, Putin's Russia and Trump amount to a "unified field theory of #Trumprussia"? Certainly, many of the names are there; I...tdog2017-04-09T12:04:29-05:00April is the cruelest monthhttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001897.html
Thus sayeth T.S. Eliot somewhere or other. As you know, it's the 1st of April, a day for "fooling." And indeed, in the history of this blog, I have often...tdog2017-04-01T12:07:18-05:00TD Blog Interview with Jeffrey Kayehttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001896.html
Jeffrey S. Kaye is a native Californian and is a practicing psychologist in San Francisco, Calif. Dr. Kaye has a bachelors degree from the University of California, Berkeley and he...tdog2017-03-26T11:54:25-05:00Dog Bites Manhttp://www.thetalkingdog.com/archives2/001895.html
I more or less agree with this quite critical assessment in Slate of last night's "major scoop" concerning a release of President Donald Trump's 2005 income tax return by MSNBC's...tdog2017-03-15T08:57:51-05:00